Overview

The panel of speakers from PwC will be sharing some of the best practices and effective application relevant to the asset and wealth management industry. Understand how an organisation would benefit from having a strong risk culture. The proper tone from the top is critical as organisations adopt the new Manager-in-Charge regime. What can we expect from the upcoming FATF mutual evaluation of Hong Kong? Is your organisation's AML programmes effective?

Content

Topic 1: Risk Culture

This session aims to provide participants with a better understanding of risk culture, what happens when the organisation has a poor risk culture and some methods to measure and strengthen an organisation's risk culture.

Topic 2: Manager-in-Charge ("MIC") Regime and Outsourcing Obligations

This session aims to provide participants with an overview of MIC regime and how it impacts asset and wealth managers in discharging their responsibilities under the MIC regime. The panel will also share some of the challenges faced by asset and wealth managers in demonstrating adequate oversight of outsourced activities.

Topic 3: Anti-Money Laundering - Latest Developments and Implications

The session aims to provide participants with an overview of the latest developments in Anti-Money Laundering ("AML") and the implications on a firm's AML programme.

In-service practitioners of the financial services industry will be eligible for the Scheme. They will be reimbursed 80% of the course fees, subject to a maximum of HK$7,000 (whichever is the lower) upon satisfactory completion of a course or seminar over the three-year period of the Scheme.

Each individual may apply for reimbursement for more than one course / seminar.

Application to reimburse the course fees, together with the required documents, must be submitted within four months from the last day of the course attended.

Speaker/Course Instructor

KNIGHT-EVANS Carlyon

Carlyon Knight-Evans is a Financial Services Risk & Regulatory Partner at PwC. He has 25+ years of experience serving clients in the asset and wealth management industry, the first 11 years were spent in the UK and for the last 17 years he has been based in Hong Kong.
In addition to providing assurance services to the asset and wealth management industry, Carlyon also has extensive experience in advising asset servicers, wealth managers and asset management firms on operational effectiveness, best practices in areas of corporate governance and internal controls, start-ups, and regulatory and compliance work. He services clients across the various sub-sectors of the industry, including administrators, custodians, trustees, hedge funds, private equity, real estate, wealth managers and traditional asset managers.
Carlyon was a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA) Expert Panel on Securities for 8 years and currently serves on the HKICPA’s Disciplinary Panel and was appointed as a member of the Financial Reporting Review Panel of the Financial Reporting Council in 2016. He is also an Executive Committee member of the Hong Kong branch of the Alternative Investment Management Association.
Carlyon is PricewaterhouseCoopers' Alternatives leader for Asia Pacific.

FU Ho Kee

Hokee is a Partner at PwC Hong Kong who specialises in Anti-Money Laundering and other compliance matters. Hokee advises a broad range of financial institutions and designated non-financial businesses and professionals operating in the Asia Pacific region on their Anti-Money Laundering programmes, and has delivered a significant number of regulator-commissioned reviews in assessing compliance status as well as conducted remediation/enhancement projects to help organisations ensure compliance with the applicable Anti-Money Laundering requirements.
Hokee has spent six months on secondment to a regulator where he conducted inspections of banks in order to assess their compliance status against the applicable Anti-Money Laundering requirements. He has supported a regulator in the development of money laundering risk assessment, with a primarily focus on industry data collection and analysis.
He is a member of the Anti-Money Laundering working group at the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, assisting with the development of the institute’s enhanced AML guidelines to accountants and comment upon government consultations.
He is also a regular speaker at various functions, including the management of tax evasion risk at a Hong Kong Monetary Authority training seminar, and at Anti-Money Laundering training seminars jointly organised by the Narcotics Division within the Security Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, Joint Financial Intelligence Unit and Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

LI Helen

Helen is a partner specialised in the Asset Management Industry Group and she also provides the advisory services for asset management clients. She has extensive auditing and advisory experience, serving investment fund managers, advisors, fund administrators, private equity funds, hedge funds, traditional funds and SFC authorised funds. She is active in providing a wide range of advisory services to asset management clients, including conducting internal control review work, advising regulatory compliance review for asset managers, prime brokers and other service providers. She is focusing the China Asset Management industry and provides assurance and advisory services to the China Fund Managers. In addition, she is also very experienced in providing the advisory services for the start up investment funds and newly established fund managers or investment advisors.
Helen was seconded to SFC, Intermediary Supervision Department in 2008/2009. During the period, she was responsible for supervising different types of SFC licensed intermediaries including the security broker firms, fund managers and investment advisors. She also assisted to draft the SFC circular for the distribution to the licensed corporations.
Helen is a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA) and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). She is also a charter holder of Chartered Financial Analyst.

FOOTMAN Michael Henry Charles

Michael is a Director with PwC Hong Kong’s Financial Services Risk and Regulation practice. He has over 15 years of diverse experience working with financial institutions and regulators. Michael is based in Hong Kong, where he has over 10 years of working experience. He was also based in Sydney for 4 years working with PwC Australia’s Financial Services practice.
Michael has broad experience in executing risk and regulatory engagements for large financial institutions, many of which were regulatory driven appointments. These include engagements sanctioned by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and the Securities and Futures Commission. Most recently, Michael has been supporting his clients in enhancing their control infrastructure in response to governance, culture and misconduct issues.
Michael holds a Master of Management and a Bachelor of Industrial Economics. He is a Practicing Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in the United Kingdom.